Lutheran Adoption Service is Michigan's largest full service private adoption agency, providing services for International, Domestic Infant & State Ward adoption services. Lutheran Adoption Service specializes in the placement of children from the Stateâ€™s foster care system. Many children in foster care are in need of permanent adoptive homes. Most of these children have been neglected, abused or abandoned by their birth parents. The majority of children waiting for adoptive homes are African-American. Many of them are school age, male or are part of a sibling group who need to be placed together. Learning disabilities, developmental delays and emotional problems are common. Most of these children are in need of ongoing therapy and adoptive families find this a key ingredient to success.

Since 1941, Catholic Charities of Shiawassee & Genesee Counties has worked to strengthen lives and preserve families by providing quality, comprehensive, human service programming and services. Today, we continue to fulfill our mission â€“ Providing Help and Creating Hope â€“ by offering all individuals, regardless of faith or situation, the means to reinforce the positive values of family life, by contributing to harmonious family interrelationships, and by promoting healthy personality development for individuals and families. Catholic Charities abides by fundamental values and ethical standards as determined by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Lansing.

Ennis Center for Children has been working with abused and/or neglected children for over 35 years with our services reaching over 3,500 Michigan children and families in crisis annually. On any given day, we help over 300 children in our foster care program alone. In addition, with locations in Genesee, Oakland, St. Clair and Wayne County, we are a leading agency in finding adoptive families for children, including those with special needs. Ennis Center also works with delinquent teens, helping them stay safe, stay in school and on a path toward a productive adulthood. Our mission: â€œWith the support of the community, we preserve families when possible and create new families when necessaryâ€ drives our trained, dedicated and compassionate staff as they guide children and families toward a future better than their past. Recognized as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation, Ennis Center for Children is proud to be nationally accredited by the Council on Accreditation for Children and Families (COA) and licensed by the State of Michigan. In some instances, children in foster care are unable to return to their birth family and are in need of a permanent adoptive home. Adoptive families are needed for children of all ages with an immediate need for families willing to adopt siblings, teenagers, and/or children who have special emotional, mental, educational or medical needs. Ennis Center provides adoption services exclusively for children in the foster care system and is consistently ranked as one of the top specialized adoption agencies in the state.